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The event is a result of a collaborative project with the University of Toronto and Keewaytinook Okimakanak, with funding from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

From Wawatay News

INAC to fund Wahsa for three additional months

Rick Garrick/Wawatay News - March 19, 2010

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada will fund the Wahsa Distance Education Centre for three additional months while it conducts a review of the long-running program.

International Day for the Elimination of Racism - March 21 - CLC Statement 2010

Activists are courageous people.

Five decades ago, students, community members and workers, came together in Soweto, South Africa; a group of individuals opposed to apartheid and armed only with non-violent courage, and they stood together as a community.

From the Toronto Star

First Nations end blockade of Ring of Fire deposit

March 19, 2010 - The Canadian Press

Northern Development Minister Michael Gravelle is lauding First Nations for ending blockades that prevented mining companies from studying the Ring of Fire chromite deposit in northern Ontario.

From http://firstnationshockey.ca

A-Side Championship:

Pikangikum's Screaming Otters 7 - Lac Seul Eagles 1

B-Side Championship:

Fort Hope's Bushtown Jets 8 - Fort Severn's Hudson Bay Cree 6

C-Side Championship: 

Poplar Hill's Obesahdekong Ice Dogs 6 - Kasabonika Islanders 3

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 The following statement was issued to challenge the government's Throne Speech statement requiring "the provisions of the Declaration to be interpreted in accordance with the constitution and laws of each state".  First Nation organizaiton and supporters are concerned that this statement could serve to legitimize any existing injustices and discrimination in domestic situations. It would also undermine the principle of “universality” that applies to all human rights.”

 March 18, 2010

Press releases

NAN rejects report on First Nation post-secondary school funding

THUNDER BAY, ON, March 18 /CNW/ - Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Terry Waboose has rejected a recent report that recommends stripping First Nations of local control over the Post-Secondary School Support Program (PSSSP) for their students.

Free to Learn: Giving Aboriginal Youth Control over Their Post-Secondary Education, was released March 15, 2010 by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy.

From CTV.ca 

Native gangs spreading across Canada, says RCMP 

The Canadian Press

Date: Tuesday Mar. 16, 2010 7:03 AM ET

Aboriginal gangs are proliferating across Canada as criminal organizations exploit the intense poverty and squalid conditions that many First Nations youth live in, says a top officer with the RCMP's aboriginal police division.

From CBC.ca  

Internet access funds not cut: Clement

March 16, 2010

Minister of Industry Tony Clement told reporters on Tuesday funding will continue to community institutions that provide free internet access to Canadians. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

From the Canadian Press at CBC.ca

Libraries, community groups squeezed by cuts to Internet program

March 15, 2010 - Jennifer Ditchburn

OTTAWA - The Conservative government is quietly cutting funding to hundreds of community groups and even hospitals that provide free Internet access to Canadians who might not otherwise have a chance to get online.